Elevate Your Day with Andi and Brian Hale
Andi and Brian bring you daily devotionals to help elevate your day!
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After a long day at work, I remember feeling heavy pain in my stomach. I was going to blow it off, but after being coerced by a loved one to go to the doctor, I relented and went to Urgent Care. Twelve hours later I found out I had a major issue that would require surgery. Terrified, I started the stint to look for the right doctor to perform my upcoming surgery.
...There is an old saying in churches that reads, “Jesus take the wheel,” which simply means that in life, God should be in the driver’s seat as we submissively follow His direction. I saw a very funny meme online that said, “Jesus take the wheel, but not that wheel.” A driver was missing the front wheel of his car as the rim scraped th...
Working in a stressful environment like corporate always causes major sugar cravings. I remember one day oddly, I really wanted chocolate. This is very unusual for me because I don’t typically eat chocolate, and it’s not really my favorite guilty pleasure.
After a meeting, my friend and I headed to the snack stash to indu...
One Valentine’s Day, I attended an event with ladies I knew from a church organization with which I was associated. As the ladies trickled into the cozy Italian bistro to their assigned seats, they began to converse and eagerly look at the menu to order food.
One of the ladies was in the midst of getting ready for the event. In...
From Purpose Through Pain by Chidi Wosu
During the holidays, I always go to Pittsburgh to see my family. Since my mother and father reside there, the whole family comes down to spend the most wonderful time of the year under the same roof. One night, while soundly sleeping, I was awakened to the sound of birds. I woke up almost immediately from the loud and distracting chi...
One of the most familiar and hope-filled passages of Scripture is Jeremiah 29:11: “‘I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future’” (NIV).
God knows the plan. It’s not about you, your efforts, or you...
Endless sermons and podcasts and books rightly tell us that the safest place to be is in the will of God. But how do you know God’s will for your life? How do you identify God’s hand on a thing instead of your own?
One way God lets us know that something is not His will is through warnings. He cautions us. He shows us red ...
Is your mind crowded by worries, what-ifs, and lies? Sometimes our minds have a death grip on the hypothetical and a loose grip on God’s historical. We fail to think about what God has done; instead, we focus on what we fear might happen.
If you battle with overthinking or if hypotheticals plague your mind, recall the following S...
If you are a believer striving to grow in Christ, you’re not just a Christian who likes Jesus. You are trying to be Christlike. So, when we look at Jesus, we can observe that He had routines.
Luke 5:16 NIV says, “Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed” (emphasis mine). Earlier, in Luke 4:...
You encourage me, reader. Why? Because the very act of starting this reading plan demonstrates that you are striving to be intentional with the healing of your heart. You are looking for scriptural guidance to grow and flourish. Your purposeful pursuit of healing shows that you are open to how Jesus can stem the flow of whatever in your life hurt you and left you...
Scripture: James 4:1-3
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend i...
Scripture: Luke 12:13-21
Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?” And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consis...
Scripture: Ephesians 4:25-32
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil. Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work w...
Scripture: 1 John 1:5-10
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another,...
Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.” He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and y...
December 11, 1783
In his book Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers, Daniel L. Dreisbach observes that the leaders of the American Revolution repeatedly referred to Micah 6:8. “The literature of the founding era has numerous references and allusions to this biblical text,” he wrote. This includes John W...
October 19, 1781
The Battle of Yorktown effectively ended the American Revolution. British General Charles Cornwallis, badly outnumbered and isolated, sent out a white flag and surrendered to George Washington.
Israel Evans was there to preach a sermon of victory to the American forces. A na...
August 29, 1776
After their humiliation in Boston, the British fleet retired to Canada to lick their wounds and repair their vessels, then sailed straight for New York City. Washington also moved his troops to New York and began building siege works along Brooklyn Heights.
When British shi...
April 19, 1775
The opening shots of the American Revolution were aimed at a preacher and his congregation, who, bolstered by Scripture, were ready for the moment.
Jonas Clark preached in the village of Lexington, Massachusetts, “with uncommon energy and zeal.” His voice “...
September 7, 1774
Amid fear and rising tensions, delegates from across the Colonies arrived in Philadelphia on September 4, 1774, to convene the First Continental Congress. Before tackling the weighty issues of the day, they acted on a motion by Thomas Cushing from Massachusetts to begin their business with prayer.
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